The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art

T J Bacon (she/they) is a is a trans-femme pansexual person with hidden disabilities. Her practice as an artist-philosopher foregrounds transgender studies and phenomenology, alongside queer theory, crip theory, disaster studies, and futures to consider visual art, performance art, activism and curation. She has exhibited internationally for over 20 years with a practice rooted in the elemental and esoteric. She is also the founder and artistic director of Tempting Failure which produces and supports international visual art, performance art and sonic art. She is currently Resident Researcher at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London and a PhD Advisor with the Trans Art Institute. She is also the lead on the Queer Acts of Hope line of enquiry at the Guildhall De-Centre for Socially Engaged Practice & Research. She lives and works in London. Chelsea Coon (she/her) is an artist and writer whose work focuses on the shifting interconnections of the body, time, and space. She reconsiders limits of the body and forms through performance, photography, video, painting, sculpture, and installation. She has performed and exhibited extensively across North America, Europe, Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, South America, Australia, and the Middle East. Recent solo exhibitions include Heavy Metal at Meno Parkas Gallery, Lithuania; The probability of all possible states of the system at Arka Gallery, Lithuania; and deathless at Galleri Kronborg, Norway. Chelsea Coon's writings on contemporary art, performance, and philosophy are included in experimental and academic publications, magazines, and journals. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

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Introduction: The Phenomenology of Bloody Performance Art!

T J Bacon, Chelsea Coon

Part I: The Phenomenology of Bloody Pain

T J Bacon

I. Intentionality of a Moment – Three stages of a reduction

Stuart Grant

II. In Conversation – Franko B and Andrei Molodkin

T J Bacon, Chelsea Coon, Becky Haghpanah-Shirwan`

III. In Conversation – Louis Fleischauer and Ernst Fischer

T J Bacon

IV. Blood Rituals - A Provocation to Queer a Phenomenological Soil

T J Bacon

V. In Conversation - Hermann Nitsch

T J Bacon

VI. The Phenomenology of the Visceral Response

Lynn Lu

VII. In Conversation – Mike Parr

T J Bacon

Part II: The Phenomenology of Bloody Care

T J Bacon

VIII. Being shattered – fragility and our psychogenesis

Kelly Jordan

IX. In Conversation – ORLAN and Marina Abramović

T J Bacon, Kelly Jordan

X. Experiential Traces: The Aesthetic of Absence

Chelsea Coon

XI. In Conversation – Mirabelle Jones and Chelsea Coon

Chelsea Coon

XII. In Conversation - Paola Paz Yee and Victor Martinez Diaz

Chelsea Coon

XIII. Tainted Blood? Thinking Blood and Bleeding with Race

Amber Jamilla Musser

XIV. In Conversation - Jelili Atiku

Chelsea Coon

Part III: The Phenomenology of Bloody Disruption

T J Bacon

XV. The fluidity or transmutability of borders held in the lived body of trans and non-binary bodies

T J Bacon

XVI. In Conversation – tjb and Ron Athey

Chelsea Coon

XVII. Bleeding Pulsing Biding Time - Durational Performance and Phenomenological Unmuting in the work of MC Coble

Raegan Truax

XVIII. Reclaiming the body: blood, trauma, protest

Roberta Mock

XIX. In Conversation - Marisa Carnesky and Poppy Jackson

T J Bacon

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